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Neither East Nor West
by Bob McGlynn
Fifth Estate # 391, Spring/Summer 2014 - Anarchy!
During the Cold War period, there was a sector of anarchists/left-libertarians in the West who took special interest in developments and repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries. Their interest was in part due to the ultra-closed nature …
Concept East Reopens
by anon.
Fifth Estate # 3, January 1966
Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh last month ordered the renewal of a concert hall license for Concept East Theatre.
East Side Violence
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
On Tuesday, May 3, 1966. Thomas L. Baker, a 16 year old black youth was shot and wounded while entering the office of the Afro-American Youth Movement (A.A.Y.M.), formerly known as the Adult Community Movement for Equality, at 9211 Kercheval …
East Detroit Protest
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 71, January 23-February 5, 1969
East Detroit High School was the scene Jan. 10 of a student sit-in protesting school policies there.
State Terrorism in West Germany
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 289, January 24, 1978
As the letter on the preceding page indicates [“Who Are the Real Terrorists?,” FE #289, January 24, 1978], though the more spectacular aspects of the repression in West Germany are now fading from the popular imagination, the “policification” of the …
Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out
by Anu Bonobo
Fifth Estate # 371, Winter 2006
a review of Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out. Contact Jenna Free at leslzine–at–gmail–dot–com for barter to library workers; $3 to everyone else.
West German Protest
by Liberation News Service
Fifth Estate # 280, February 1977
Staff Note: Several weeks ago LNS received a letter from some activist friends in West Germany, telling us about a huge anti-nuclear demonstration/ occupation that took place in mid-November (1976). Apparently demonstrations of 30,000 and severe police repression is not …
Alt-right on the Run After East Lansing Antifa Action
by Cody Constructor
Fifth Estate # 401, Summer 2018
For those curious whether Antifa tactics can actually deliver the goods when it comes to disrupting fascist organizing efforts, the activity surrounding white supremacist Richard Spencer’s early March visit to Michigan should serve as a resounding, “Yes!” The alt-right leader, …
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West German Anarchists on the Autonome
by Elizabeth Kemp
Fifth Estate # 332, Summer, 1989
FE Introduction During the massive European anti-nuke demonstrations of the ’70s, at squatter defenses and other actions across the Continent, shadowy groups of angry militants, often dressed in black, masked and armed with slingshots and stones became a common sight. …
Poor People Lose Out in West Central Elections
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967
Detroit is a killer city. It is a city in which radicals and reformers of various political stripes have found it nearly impossible to survive.
Marked Cards in the Middle East
by Rob Recidivist
Fifth Estate # 336, Spring, 1991
“Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson. Three old men shuffling the pack, dealing out the cards: The Rhineland, Danzig, the Polish Corridor, the Ruhr, self-determination of small nations, the Saar, League of Nations, mandates, the Mespot, Freedom of the Seas, Trans-Jordania, …
Valentine’s Day Massacre at West Central
by Frank H. Joyce
Fifth Estate # 25, March 1-15, 1967
Editor’s note: The West Central Organization is a “poor people’s organization” founded in June of 1965. It is modeled after the militant community organizing projects of Saul David Alinsky, executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, who is retained by …
Facing West
by Alice Detroit
Fifth Estate # 308, January 19, 1982
a review of Facing West, The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building, Richard Drinnon, New York, New American Library, 1980.
Disneyland East
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 9, June, 1966
According to Time Magazine, prostitution has always been part of the American soldier’s life. It is a continuation of a grand tradition going back to the Crusades and extending through the vivandieres of World War I to the B-Girls called …
Fascist Youth Gangs Plague West Coast
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 322, Winter-Spring, 1986
In the last few years there has been a rapid increase of right-wing white gangs in Southern California’s white, middle-class suburbs. Known as “white-boy gangs,” they are not as territorial as the traditional cultural gangs in black or Mexican urban …
Third Reich Rides Again
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 32, June 15-30, 1967
A recently formed organization set up to oppose West German militarism has complained of that country’s territorial demands on its European neighbors.
Pen Pals
by Jessamine O'Connor
Fifth Estate # 405, Winter, 2020
Friends for fifteen years and never met. She sends letters across the Atlantic, then the span of land from east to west and into the front gates to be rifled through, security checked and sometimes rejected, wheeled along corridors and …
In The On-Deck Circle
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 296, January 29, 1979
The authoritarian, proto-fascist religious cults such as the Moonies, Krishna Consciousness and the People’s Temple have always thrived at the fringes of what was once called the “counter-culture” and which is today euphemistically referred to as “New Age” consciousness—a catch-all …
PAR Benefits at Concept
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 33, July 1-15, 1967
Benefit performances for People Against Racism will be given by the Concept East Theater on July 7th and 8th. Two plays, Edward Albee’s “A Zoo Story” and Leroi Jones’ “The Dutchman,” will be performed on Friday, July 7th. Laurence Blaine’s …